Endurance Exploration Group Inc (EXPL)

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Is this not a fair statement in your opinion? If Spartan should have known, why not the Commission?

In fact, before Spartan or Island provided any services to any of these 19 companies, each company prepared and filed a registration statement with the SEC. In turn, each registration statement was declared effective by the SEC. The representations the companies made to the SEC in support of their respective registration statements – i.e., the representations on which the SEC relied and which it accepted – were the same those companies made to Spartan and Island, and the same ones on which Spartan and Island relied. In short, Spartan and Island – just like the SEC – were victims of the fraud that these individuals behind these 19 companies were committing, and not, as the Complaint alleges, themselves perpetrators of any fraud.